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05: The Design of Spelunky

Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games

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Derek's Book About Spelunky

Derek: I think Spelunky was a huge influence on a lot of indie game designers. He says he really got excited about the difficulty and the sort of idea of risk mitigation. Zach: It's beautiful visual support of all the stuff that he does, right? Because he just shows how it was all generated in his nice YouTube videos. And also, of course, something we're not going to dive too much into today because we'll say that is Derek's book about Spelunky.

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